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[wyoming cowboy]

Microsoft Corp.’s Trustworthy Computing Group named Vasilis Pappas the winner of the company’s first-ever BlueHat Prize contest, a competition that awards the development of new, innovative computer security defense technologies. The company presented Pappas, currently a Ph.D. student at Columbia University in New York, with $200,000 at the Microsoft Researcher Appreciation Party.

kBouncer, the winning entry among 20 submissions, detects abnormal control transfers using the Last Branch Recording feature of Intel processors to mitigate Return Oriented Programming (ROP). ROP is an advanced technique that attackers use to combine short pieces of benign code, already present in a system, for a malicious purpose. By using supported hardware features, kBouncer can be implemented with lower cost to performance and development time.

All three BlueHat Prize finalists designed technologies to mitigate attacks that leverage ROP, underscoring how prominent the exploitation technique is today. Microsoft awarded first runner-up, Ivan Fratric, $50,000 for his submission, called ROPGuard, and a surprise $10,000 cash reward was given to the second runner-up, Jared DeMott, for /ROP. In addition to the monetary prizes, the company gave all three winners subscriptions to the Microsoft Developer Network valued at $10,000 each.

The BlueHat Prize competition was designed to challenge the security community to look beyond the norm of problems, such as vulnerabilities, and instead focus on developing innovative solutions to pressing security challenges.

Vassilis Pappas completed his bachelor studies at the University of Crete in 2007 and got his MA degree in 2009. “There are definitely more chances for everyone in the US, if you try hard enough, but many of my fellow students from the University of Crete, stayed in Greece and are doing well too. I always liked the idea of living abroad and especially in NY. You have to love what you are doing and you must work hard to reap the fruits of your labor,” noted the Greek PhD student, according to secnews.gr.

(Source: microsoft.com)


http://usa.greekreporter.com/2012/08/02 ... d-student/

[kimon07]

Bravo to the kid.

Did you find anything about the 12 Greek Kids winning highest prices in the mathematical Olympiads (the one for under 15 and those for over 15 I think)? I will try to lacate it and post it.

[kimon07]

Bravo to the kid.

Did you find anything about the 12 Greek Kids winning highest prices in the mathematical Olympiads (the one for under 15 and those for over 15 I think)? I will try to lacate it and post it.

Here it is:

Greek Pupils Excel at the 53rd International Mathematical Olympiad
By Areti Kotseli on July 20, 2012 in News
Greek pupils shined during the 53rd International Mathematical Olympiad receiving a Gold, a Silver and three Bronze medals as well as an honorable mention in Argentina on Monday July 16, 2012.
During the contest, Greek pupils proved to be the brightest minds of the Eurozone, leaving Germans, Italians, Dutchmen, Spaniards and others behind.

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/07 ... -olympiad/

and this includes reference to the second Olympiad (under 15)

http://www.dimokratianews.gr/content/87 ... F%8E%CE%BD

[supporttheunderdog]

Why the interest in Greks when this is the Cyuprus forum? How did any Cypriots participants do?

[GreekIslandGirl]

Bravo to the kid.

Did you find anything about the 12 Greek Kids winning highest prices in the mathematical Olympiads (the one for under 15 and those for over 15 I think)? I will try to lacate it and post it.

Here it is:

Greek Pupils Excel at the 53rd International Mathematical Olympiad
By Areti Kotseli on July 20, 2012 in News
Greek pupils shined during the 53rd International Mathematical Olympiad receiving a Gold, a Silver and three Bronze medals as well as an honorable mention in Argentina on Monday July 16, 2012.
During the contest, Greek pupils proved to be the brightest minds of the Eurozone, leaving Germans, Italians, Dutchmen, Spaniards and others behind.

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/07 ... -olympiad/

and this includes reference to the second Olympiad (under 15)

http://www.dimokratianews.gr/content/87 ... F%8E%CE%BD

Lovely! Will mention to my son ...

[GreekIslandGirl]

Why the interest in Greks when this is the Cyuprus forum? How did any Cypriots participants do?

If this is a Cyprus forum, what are YOU doing here?

[kimon07]

Why the interest in Greks when this is the Cyuprus forum? How did any Cypriots participants do?

Your post is off topic. Nevertheless, here is the answer. We Greeks care for all Greeks and support all Greek accomplishments, be them Greek Cypriot, or Cretan or mainland etc.

[kimon07]

Why the interest in Greks when this is the Cyuprus forum? How did any Cypriots participants do?

If this is a Cyprus forum, what are YOU doing here?

[kimon07]

.....How did any Cypriots participants do?

I am sure the report would have mentioned them if they had achieved distincions. Maybe they didn't participate.

[Get Real!]

During the contest, Greek pupils proved to be the brightest minds of the Eurozone, leaving Germans, Italians, Dutchmen, Spaniards and others behind.

How many times must I warn you not to read from Greek propaganda sites which distort information?

And tell me something, if Greeks are so clever how come you’re so hard at learning?

Now here’s the official site with the results of all countries for all the years that this has been going on…

http://www.imo-official.org/results.aspx

In 2012 you came 26th whereas last year 40th. Korea, China, US, and Russia took first, second, third, and fourth place and you’ll find that country positions fluctuate each year and of course large populations make a big difference.

The results for Greece are a far cry from the hype your Greek junk site is trying to pass off!